Health audiobooks

Lessons from Madame Chic

By: Jennifer L. Scott

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jennifer Scott arrived at the doorstep of a grand Sixteenth Arrondissement apartment as a foreign exchange student, she was greeted by the woman who would become her mentor and the inspiration for the way she lived long after her time abroad was over. Madame Chic took the casual California teenager under her wing, revealing the secrets of... Read more

The Immune System Recovery Plan

By: Susan Blum, MD, MPH

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The most prevalent form of chronic illness in this country, autoimmune diseases affect nearly 23.5 million Americans. This epidemic—a result of the toxins in our diet, our exposure to chemicals, heavy metals, antibiotics, and unprecedented stress levels—has caused millions of people to suffer from diseases like Graves' disease, rheumatoid... Read more

Unaccountable

By: Marty Makary, M.D.

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Marty Makary is codeveloper of the life-saving checklist outlined in Atul Gawande's bestselling The Checklist Manifesto. As a busy surgeon who has worked in many of the best hospitals in the nation, he can testify to the amazing power of modern medicine to cure. But he's also been a witness to a medical culture that routinely leaves surgical... Read more

Perfect Health Diet

By: Paul Jaminet & Shou-Ching Jaminet

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Suffering from chronic illness and unable to get satisfactory results from doctors, husband and wife scientists Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet took an intensely personal interest in health and nutrition. They embarked on five years of rigorous research. What they found changed their lives—and the lives of thousands of their readers.

In Perfect... Read more

The Men on My Couch

By: Dr. Brandy Engler & David Rensin

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When Dr. Brandy Engler opened her sex therapy practice for women in Manhattan, she got a big surprise. Most of the calls were from men. They wanted to talk about womanizing, porn addiction, impotence, prostitutes—and most of all, love.



Her patients were everyday guys from all walks of life. Among them were David, the Wall Street hotshot and... Read more

You Are Why You Eat

By: Dr. Ramani Durvasula

Narrated by: Jane Jacobs

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What if you could stop eating, stop working at a bad job, stop a bad relationship—stop anything when you have had enough? Understanding WHY you eat can lead to real and lasting change—both in weight loss and all other areas of life. In You Are WHY You Eat, food becomes a digestible metaphor. Most of us are unable to walk away—from a plate of... Read more

Why Men Fake It

By: Abraham Morgentaler, M.D.

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

What really drives men to do what they do? Why Men Fake It uses the real-life stories of Dr. Abraham Morgentaler's patients to let us in on the secrets of men and to examine the current state of male sexuality in science and medicine as well as in relationships and popular culture. In this frank and open discussion of the subject, Dr.... Read more

Bad Pharma

By: Ben Goldacre

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that... Read more

The Gabriel Method

By: Jon Gabriel

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The pile of recent dieting books is growing faster than the average American's waistline. From the well-known programs that deprive and restrict to ones that rely on juice alone, it seems that everybody has an answer to the growing problem of obesity.

When Jon Gabriel's life took an unexpected turn, he suddenly was awakened to the marvelous gift... Read more

The Beauty Detox Solution

By: Kimberly Snyder, C.N.

Narrated by: Kimberly Snyder, C.N.

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Nutritionist and beauty expert Kimberly Snyder helps dozens of A-list celebrities get red carpet ready—and now you're getting the star treatment. Kim used to struggle with coarse hair, breakouts and stubborn belly fat, until she traveled the world, learning age-old beauty secrets. She discovered that what you eat is the ultimate beauty product,... Read more

Planned Bullyhood

By: Karen Handel

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For at least a decade, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the
world's leading breast cancer organization, had been dealing with the backlash
from pro-life conservatives because of its grants to Planned Parenthood, the
world's largest abortion provider. According to Karen Handel, Komen's senior
vice president of public policy in 2011, the two... Read more

The Virgin Diet

By: JJ Virgin

Narrated by: JJ Virgin

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The key to weight loss isn't calories. It isn't fat. It isn't protein. It isn't even carbs. You can count them, cut them, and swap them all you want, but you won't lose weight if you're eating foods that your body can't tolerate. And the most common diet foods—like egg whites, wheat bread, and fat-free yogurt—are some of the worst offenders.... Read more

The New Sugar Busters!

By: Sam S. Andrews, M.D., Luis A. Balart, M.D., Mor...

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sugar Busters! hit the shelves almost five years ago, it quickly became a diet and lifestyle phenomenon. The millions of people across the country on the Sugar Busters! plan discovered that by simply choosing the correct carbohydrates and lowering their sugar intake, they could shed the pounds they failed to lose with other diets. Now the... Read more

The Drunk Diet

By: Lüc Carl

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With his trademark rock 'n' roll hair and snakeskin spandex pants, plus a hot rod and a Harley, Lüc Carl fit the part as a bar manager based in New York City's gritty Lower East Side. And life was good for this Omaha, Nebraska, transplant—a talented drummer who originally moved to the big city to pursue his rock 'n' roll dreams—until, suddenly,... Read more

The Simple Diet

By: James W. Anderson, M.D. & Nancy J. Gustafson, M...

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

If you have tried to lose weight and failed, or lost weight and failed to keep it off, you're not alone. Two out of three Americans are overweight, many with between thirty and one hundred pounds to lose. Now Dr. James W. Anderson, a professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky, shares his groundbreaking,... Read more

Diet Rehab

By: Antonia Blyth & Dr. Mike Dow

Narrated by: Dr. Mike Dow

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 2010, The Scripps Research Institute released a study showing how rats on a junk-food diet had just as difficult a time—if not more so—giving up excess fat and sugar as the rats who were struggling to recover from cocaine dependence. The results showed that certain foods actually alter the brain's chemistry, making our consumption of... Read more

Drug Muggers

By: Suzy Cohen, R.Ph.

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Prescription and over-the-counter drugs help millions of people with devastating diseases and chronic conditions. But in the process, these medications can also deplete the body's natural stores of vitamins, minerals, and hormones—the very nutrients you need to keep energy levels high, fend off infections, and be healthy. Pharmacist Suzy Cohen... Read more

Diabetes without Drugs

By: Suzy Cohen, R.Ph.

Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 17 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Most doctors consider diabetes a one-way street—once you have it, your only option is to manage the symptoms with a restricted diet, close monitoring of blood sugar, and expensive medications. Pharmacist Suzy
Cohen shows that diabetes can be treated instead through safe, natural means, like food and vitamins, rather than strictly relying on... Read more

The Mood Cure

By: Julia Ross, M.A.

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Drawing on thirty years of experience as a psychotherapist, clinic director, and pioneer in the field of nutritional psychology, Julia Ross presents breakthrough solutions to many of the negative emotional states that are diminishing the quality of our lives. Her comprehensive, safe, and natural program is based on the use of four mood-building... Read more

The South Beach Wake-Up Call

By: Arthur Agatston, M.D.

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye & Coleen Marlo

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

There is a proverbial ticking time bomb in our midst. It's the toxic lifestyle that is wreaking havoc on
our nation's health and well-being and posing an equal threat to everyone from the very young to the
very old. In today's fast-food-obsessed, couch-potato culture, two-thirds of all adults and one-third of all children are either overweight or... Read more

The G-Free Diet

By: Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

For years Elisabeth Hasselbeck couldn't pinpoint what was making her sick. She consulted doctors and nutritionists, but no one seemed to have any answers. It wasn't until she was close to starving in the Australian Outback, living off the land as a contestant on Survivor, that, ironically, her symptoms vanished. Returning home, she identified... Read more

The Gerson Therapy

By: Charlotte Gerson & Morton Walker, D.P.M.

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Cancer. Hepatitis. Migraines. Arthritis. Heart disease. Emphysema. For years, the medical establishment has called these chronic or life-threatening diseases incurable. But now, the Gerson Therapy offers hope for those seeking relief from hundreds of different diseases. One of the first alternative cancer therapies, the Gerson Therapy has... Read more

Life, on the Line

By: Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, chef Grant Achatz seemingly had it made. He had been named one of the best new chefs in America by Food & Wine in 2002, received the James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef of the Year Award in 2003, and in 2005 he and Nick Kokonas opened the conceptually radical restaurant Alinea, which was named Best Restaurant in America by... Read more

Disconnect

By: Devra Davis

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Devra Davis presents a range of recent and long-suppressed research in this timely bombshell. Cell phone radiation is a national emergency. Stunningly, the most popular gadget of our age has now been shown to damage DNA, break down the brain's defenses, and reduce sperm count while increasing memory loss, the risk of Alzheimer's disease, and... Read more